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Princeton's WordNet

  1. surf, breaker, breakersnoun

    waves breaking on the shore

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  1. Breakers

    Breakers is a song by indie rock band Local Natives, from the band's second studio album Hummingbird. The song was released as a single on October 18, 2012.

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  1. breakers

    Breakers generally refer to waves that break into foam when they approach the shoreline, but the term is also used in other fields to denote different meanings. For instance, in electronics, a breaker refers to a device designed to interrupt an electric circuit to prevent excess current, like a circuit breaker. It can also refer to people or things that break or destroy something. The specific definition depends on the context in which it's being used.

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  1. Breakers

    Breakers is an Australian television series, that was made and aired on Network Ten between 1998 and 1999. It was shown in Ireland on TV3 and City Channel. It was also screened on BBC One in the United Kingdom and TV4 in New Zealand.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. breakers

    Small barrels for containing water or other liquids; they are also used in watering the ship as gang-casks. (See BAREKA.) Also, those billows which break violently over reefs, rocks, or shallows, lying immediately at, or under, the surface of the sea. They are distinguished both by their appearance and sound, as they cover that part of the sea with a perpetual foam, and produce loud roaring, very different from what the waves usually have over a deeper bottom. Also, a name given to those rocks which occasion the waves to break over them.--Breakers ahead! the common pass-word to warn the officer of broken water in the direction of the course. (See also SHIP-BREAKER.)

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Breakers in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Breakers in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Breakers in a Sentence

  1. Stephen Innes:

    I needed to do some minor adjustment on both hedging and pricing algos. I also adjusted some circuit breakers, given our anticipated views on market volatility. It's worth doing so to avoid issues later.

  2. Tommy Ford:

    They come to prey off the spring breakers.

  3. Magdalena Schwartz:

    Our churches, pastors, and volunteers make many sacrifices to help these families, but the defendants force us to do so in fear, we are not breaking the law, but the defendants threaten us and accuse us of being law-breakers. We have been repeatedly targeted by the defendants, and now we will ask the court to stop this behavior so that we can continue our mission in peace.

  4. President Barack Obama:

    After World War Two, we had seven ice breakers and now we only have two. Russia has 40 and 11 more planned, in light of the changes taking place, some of which (are) already happening and inevitable, it's important we are prepared.

  5. Arthur O'Shaunessey:

    We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.

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